漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
親: parent, intimacy
Also: relative, familiarity, dealer (cards)
JLPT N416 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
見 carries the meaning · 立 and 木 are drawn in
16 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 両親りょうしんparents
- 親戚しんせきrelative
- 親友しんゆうclose friend
- 親切なしんせつなkind
おやoya · kun'yomi · on its own
- 親おやparent
- 母親ははおやmother
- 父親ちちおやfather
- 親会社おやがいしゃparent company
したしいshitashii · kun'yomi
- 親しいしたしいclose, familiar
Also read おや-, したしむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辛 (sound) + 見 see (meaning)
Bronze script: phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 辛 + semantic 見 (“see”).
Source: Wiktionary, 親 (rev. 92201720), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand (立) + tree (木) + see (見). Traditionally, a "parent" is someone who "stands" high on a "tree" to "watch" over and protect their child from harm at all times.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side親 parent · 立 + 見
vs槻 Zelkova tree · 規In ChineseSimplified 亲 · traditional, as in Japanese · qīn
Japan keeps the traditional form 親; mainland China simplifies it to 亲.
- Simplified
- 亲 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 親 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qīn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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